HeyJaredThe Automotive Leaders Podcast
Prepare yourself, your team, and your business for the future of automotive.We are all evolving the products we make, have you thought about the leadership model to get us there?In-depth interviews with leaders, authors, and thought leaders, provide the insights you need.This…
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Why Automotive Leaders Must Break Rules (opens the original)
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Nobody outsources the engine. It's the heartbeat of the vehicle, and outside of a few niche players, no large OEM has ever seriously considered handing it to someone else. Tom Lewis is betting that rule's about to break. Tom is President of Horse Powertrain USA, the company formed by Renault, Geely, and Aramco with 19,000 people and 18 plants across 4 continents. OEMs bet big on battery-electric vehicles and pulled investment away from combustion and hybrid systems, but now consumer demand isn't
Quality Over Quantity: A Quick Check-In from Jan (opens the original)
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This week, Jan made a call most podcasters won't make. She sat down in the studio with a leader she's wanted on the show for a long time, and the conversation was too strong to rush out in two days. Every episode goes out as both audio and video on YouTube, which takes real production time. So she chose quality over quantity, and the full episode drops next week. That leader is Tom Lewis, President of Horse Powertrain USA. Tom doesn't accept "that's how we've always done it" from his team, his c
China Speed Isn't New: What a 1993 Binder Says About Automotive Culture (opens the original)
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We keep talking about China speed as if it were a new discovery. Early supplier involvement is presented as a fresh idea. Consultants are back in the building with slick decks about taking time out of the process, and the industry is nodding along as if none of us have seen this before. Jan has seen it before, so she went digging in her basement and came back with proof. A facilitator's guide from Allied Signal, dated 1993. Total Quality through Speed. One page asks the exact question the indust
Automotive Procurement's Power Problem: What Other Industries Do Better (opens the original)
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Automotive built the procurement playbook. Structure, process, category management, sourcing discipline. Compressed margins forced it, and every penny had to be defended. The problem is that the same discipline that made automotive procurement world-class is now the thing slowing it down. Phil Ideson, Founder and Managing Director of Art of Procurement, has seen both sides of that. He started his career in automotive purchasing at Vauxhall, moved through Ford's graduate scheme, went to Visteon,
Why Chinese OEMs Move Faster: Ramiro Gutierrez on Value, Software, and Automotive Leadership (opens the original)
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Tariffs bought this industry a window. Ramiro Gutierrez, President of North America, ZF Group, is not convinced we are using it. He has spent 30 years in the automotive industry, and he left it once. Aerospace turned out to be slower than he expected, with cycles running roughly five times longer, and he returned to ZF for engineering. What he came back to is a company spending around 8% of revenue on R&D and now under real pressure to prove that money produces a return. That pressure is where t
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